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  • The canon law assumed that cathedral had five or more bells, a parish church two or three, while the churches of the medicant orders, like public oratories, were originally limited to one.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • They stand towards us in the relation, not of medicant strangers, but of co-heirs and members of our family.

    Freeland A Social Anticipation Theodor Hertzka 1884

  • These soaps are prepared by adding the medicant to curd soap, and then making in a tablet form for use.

    The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851

  • Iodine, bromine, creosote soap, and others containing very volatile substances, are best prepared cold by shaving up the curd soap in a mortar, and mixing the medicant with it by long beating.

    The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851

  • Her touchpoint was irritate/irritation/irritant and so I gave her props and fired up my browser. medicant:

    Mostly Muppet 2009

  • I bring up the two similar suffixes because of two equally perplexing constructs I've encountered this week: "conversate" and "medicant".

    Mostly Muppet 2009

  • The whole debate has become a happy web medicant, the "soma" of the blogosphere.

    Seth Goldstein 2008

  • The whole debate has become a happy web medicant, the "soma" of the blogosphere.

    Seth Goldstein 2008

  • The whole debate has become a happy web medicant, the "soma" of the blogosphere.

    Seth Goldstein 2008

  • The whole debate has become a happy web medicant, the "soma" of the blogosphere.

    Seth Goldstein 2008

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